[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sat Jan 10 09:02:11 UTC 2009
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I disagree, I don't think each edit is a work but rather each revision
> is a work, derived from the revision before. The question is then who
> is the Original Author of the latest revision, is it just the person
> that made the last edit or is it everyone before (ie. are authors of a
> work automatically authors of a work derived from it)?
One might even regard many articles as having a homeopathic nature.
Someone starts the article, and over time and many successive edits that
person's contribution becomes diluted until it vanishes. There's often
nothing of left of it to copyright.
Ec
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